Margellos World Republic of Letters

Compulsory Happiness
In cool, precise prose, and with an unerring sense of the absurd, the four novellas of Compulso...
The Lair
Norman Manea, Romania's most famous contemporary author, twice has survived the grip of totalit...
The Black Envelope
A splendid, violent spring suddenly grips Bucharest in the 1980s after a brutal winter. Tolea,...
The Hooligan's Return
At the center of The Hooligan’s Return is the author himself, always an outcast, on a bleak lif...
Cyclops
In his semiautobiographical novel, Cyclops, Croatian writer Ranko Marinkovic recounts the adven...
The Origin of the World
This spare, unforgettable novel is Pierre Michon’s luminous exploration of the mysteries of des...
Rimbaud the Son
Rimbaud the Son," widely celebrated upon its publication in France, investigates the life of a...
Masters and Servants
One of Pierre Michon's most powerful works, this book imagines decisive moments in the lives of...
Winter Mythologies and Abbots
This welcome volume brings to English-language readers two beautifully crafted works by the int...
The Corpse Washer
Young Jawad, born to a traditional Shi'ite family of corpse washers and shrouders in Baghdad, d...
The Dirty Dust: Cré Na Cille
Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as th...
The Last Lover
In Can Xue’s extraordinary book, we encounter a full assemblage of husbands, wives, and lovers....
Five Spice Street
Five Spice Street tells the story of a street in an unnamed city whose inhabitants speculate on...
After the Circus
One of the hallmarks of French author Patrick Modiano’s writing is a singular ability to revisi...
Paris Nocturne
This uneasy, compelling novel begins with a nighttime accident on the streets of Paris. The unn...
Pedigree: A Memoir
In this rare glimpse into the life of Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano, the author takes up his p...